Mysterious Water Leak

[startx]

We have been having problems now and then with having some wetness in the camper when we open it, and I couldn't find the source.

This time when I popped up to pack for our camping trip there was a lot of water, and it was all around the sink, and on the windows behind the sink, and on the roof about a foot down from the sink toward the rear of the camper.  The beds were not wet, nothing seemed to be affected but the sink area and the wall behind the sink and the moisture on the roof.  We both searched for the problem, even wondering if it was the neighbor's sprinkler system forcing water in somehow, but we couldn't imagine how it got inside the canvas, when the outside was dry.

We think we found the problem.  We have long since lost the cap that goes over the sink drain.  Actually we bought the camper used, and I'm not sure we ever had the cap, anyway, we think, from the damage pattern, that as we drove home last trip, in heavy rains from Oklahoma City to the Texas border, that water was forced back in through the drain, and was blowing out of the sink and getting inside the camper.

At least that is the only answer we can come up with.  We did loose the cutting board, the one that covers the sink from this last trip.  It was completely swollen with water and it had been over the sink during travel.  That damage kind of goes with where we thought the water came from.

On another note, I was wondering where to get a replacement cap for the drain.  I happened to think while standing there looking at it, that it seemed a soda bottle cap would fit, and sure enough it does.  It'll do in a pinch until I can get one that looks better, but I may just buy a soda with a white cap next time, and let it go like that!  After all it threads on and everything.

[tlhdoc]

I am sure you can get one from your dealer.  3 of us on one trip had to get new stoppers in July.

[Gone-Camping]

Those little rubber hose caps are available at any RV Dealer, cost is minimal too, probably less than a buck! Sounds like a reasonable answer to your problem!!!

[tlhdoc]

OH, I thought you didn't have a stopper in the sink.   I miss understood you. :rolleyes:

[MommaMia]

OH, I thought you didn't have a stopper in the sink.   I miss understood you. :rolleyes:

Ok... now I am intrigued... Seems you were eluding to some funny/weird thing that happened with drain stoppers?

[B-flat]

This might not be the sink drain causing the problem, especially since there is water on the roof/ceiling. It could be a slight leak around your roof airconditioner and it's running down somewhere.